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these are light, proportion or ta-
lents
ib.
and mercy
326, &c.
Judgments (national,) the erroneous and the
just light in which they should be
viewed
ii 378, &c.
four erroneous dispositions in which
they are viewed
ib. &c.
God is not only the author of all
judgments, but he determines
their ends in three respects 379
a provisional or particular judg-
ment on every man as soon as
his soul leaves the body i 321
the judgment or opinion must
often be suspended ii 76
Justification, Anselm's mode of expressing on
that subject
i 301

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sions

360

five reasons why our knowledge
is circumscribed
man cannot know as God knows,
which is an adequate apology
for the mysteries of faith 362
L
Latitudinarianism, or Deism
ii 359
Law, offending in one point, &c. refers to ca-
pital offences, not to daily frailties, mo-
mentary faults and involuntary pas-
i 352
it refers to wilful and presumptuous sins,
which virtually sap the foundation of
the whole law in three respects 354
the law requires us to consider God as a
sovereign, a legislator, and a father ib.
the excellent design of God's law in
four arguments
381
Lawyers, their method of false pleading ii 73
Learning and knowledge should be acquired
by Christians
i 219
Legends, a specimen of them
ii 140
Lent, apparently observed with great reve-
rence by the author's hearers i 187
this festival is strongly recommended
ii 164
Levitical law supported by three classes of
persons
ii 213
i 52

ib.
i 270

Libertines, their objections against revelation
refuted in four arguments
Liberty, (Christian) described
Liberty described in five points: in the power
of suspending the judgment, in having
the will in unison with the under-
standing, the conscience superior to
the control of the senses, superior
to our condition in life
i 268
Liberty is incompatible with sin
269
Life, arguments on its shortness and uncer-
tainty
ii 215
the life of men divided into six periods

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Life, the viscissitudes of life

reflections on it

ix

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we should value the good things of life ib.
some men hate life, through a disposi-
tion of melancholy
through a principle of misanthropy 66
through discontent and disgust ib.
and through an excessive fondness of
life
ib.

rectitude and delicacy of conscience pro-
mote disgust of life

ii 417

Live, how shall we, the expression beautifully
69
applied
Louis XIV, a cruel, superstitious and enthu-
siastic man
i 389
his monarchy obviously alluded

to

Martyrs, a fine apostrophe to them

ii 89

i 123

158

the Jews believed in their resurrec-
tion

the moral martyrs are sometimes ac-
cused of rebellion

ii 19
they have a fourfold reward 21
arguments of support to martyrs 13
the fear of martyrdom
Marvellous, the, a caution against it
Mary, the mother of Christ
Materiality of the soul refuted
Maxims of the world

320

ii 421

ii 182

i 261

ii 31

391

Mediator, Christ in this office is one with God
in three respects
ii 157
Merchants, apprised of a heavenly treasure
ii 217
Messiah, a comfort to the church under the
idea of the Jewish captivity i 76
Metaphysical mode of reasoning, concerning
Ministers or casuists, cautioned ii 50. 71. 107
spirit and matter
i 58
humility must be their character 93

his secret policy against the
neighbouring states 395
his glory, and the humiliation of
his pride
ii 108

Love, the energy of the love of Christ i 291
the sinner is exhorted to enkindle his
heart with love
292
effects of Christ's love on the heart 294
his love is an inexhaustible source of

consolation in all the distresses of
life, and in the agonies of death 295
it is a source of universal obedience ib.
Love to God described

Machiavelian politics

M

371

i 396. ii 350
portrait of the infidel who shall
presume to govern a king-
dom on those principles 367
ii 217
ii 355

Magistrates addressed
Mahomet, character of that monster
Maimonides, this learned Rabbi agrees with
St. Paul, Rom. xii. 2. that God
requires our persons, not our
sacrifices
i 288

Malachi, character of the people to whom he
preached
ii 192
and the character of the priests 196
Malebranche, his admirable exposition of the
passions
ii 73
Man, in the simplicity of youth admires the
perfections of God, and the theory of
religion
ii 278
man is born with a propensity to vice

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St. Paul divides them into three
classes

ib.

Ministers should be distinguished by love 151
their glory in the day of the Lord 97
an address to them

217

their duty when attending profli
gate men in their last moments
249

woe, woe to the faithless ministry

295

Ministers must strike at vice without respect
259
to persons
Ministry, the little success of Christ's ministry
accounted for by five considera-

Miracles

tions

i 166

177

the christian ministry excites digni-
fied enemies
attendance on it must make us
either better or worse
it was greatly abused by the Jews

386

ii 8
a striking transition from preaching
the most tremendous terrors, to
the ministry of consolation ii 250
an apology for the ministry of ter.
ror to certain characters 224
were performed in the most public
place and before the most compe-
tent judges
i 197

209

the folly of asking miracles while we
live in sin
Miser, a, his reflections at a funeral but tran-

sient
i 208
Molinists, an opinion of theirs censured
ii 7
Montausier (Mons. de) his confession
Morality, its principle, the love of God is
i 405
always the same, its variations
therefore are simply the effect of
superior light

i 324

the nature, obligations and motives
of morality
i pref. xxxv

it has five characters: it

revealed

clearly

18

it is distinguished by dignity of
principle

by equity of claims

19

ib.

by being within our reach 21
and by the power of its motives 22

2

Morality, the morality of a soldier, of a states- | Origen, his avowal of the Godhead of Christ
man, of a merchant, of a minis-

ter

i 397

Moral evidences, its difference from mathe-
matical
ii 183
i 56

Moses, his advantage as a preacher

he is the reputed author of the xcth
Psalm

ii 210

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i 280
335

his ideas of hell
Original sin, or seed of corruption, attributed
to the depravity of nature i 215
ii 281. 397

ii 355 Orobio,

ib. Pagans,

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National dangers should especially affect those
who are most exposed

387

Nativity of Christ, all nature rejoicing at his
birth
i 149
Nature and grace abound with marvels i 93
the study of it unsearchably sublime
ii 100
Natural religion, the disciple of it embarrassed
on contemplating the miseries of
man, &c. but all these are no diffi-
culties to the disciple of revealed
religion
i 213
the disciple of natural religion, is
equally embarrassed in studying
the nature of man in three respects
214

the disciple of natural, and the disci-
ple of revealed religion, at the tri-
bunal of God, soliciting pardon 216
fortifying themselves against the fear
of death

217

218

the confusion of Pagan philosophers,
respecting natural religion, in four
respects
Nebuchadnezzar, the rapidity of his conquest
i 68
Nehemas, (Rabbi) his curious reply to a Ro-
man Consul, who had inquired con-
cerning the name of God i 328
Nicodemites described
ii 406
Night, a christian seeking for the evidence of
religion, is placed between the night
of historic difficulties, and the night
of his future hopes
ii 173
the faith which respects the night of
futurity
Nineveh, the fall of that metropolis 364
Nobility of birth extravagantly panegyrized
ii 343
a virtuous descent, the highest no-
bility

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179

ib.

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it is hostile to truth and virtue 424
it disorders the soul with unholy dis-
positions

ib.

the depravity of nature is increased
by acts of vice

417

it descends from parents to children,
and therefore is a strong argument
for diligence in education
(Isaac) a learned Jew

Р

23

i 184

their belief in the presence of the

gods at their festivals, largely
illustrated
ii 194
their major and their minor myste-
ries too abominable for description

358

their uncharitableness in denying sal-
vation to all Christians out of their
communion

i 375
they cannot be saved as idolaters 376
they are guilty of adoring the host,
&c.

ib.

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Passion, an apostrophe to grace for power Piety, it is incompatible with the whole de-

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Piety

sign of religion

88

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of taste and sentiment defined 384
the judgment we form of our state un-
der privations

when privation is general, it indicates
an unregenerate state
Pilate, the baseness of his conduct
his cruelty to the Galileans
Plato, a sketch of his republic
Plato's opinion of God
Plague, an argument for fasting and
tion

385

387

i 173

ii 377

ii 278

i 57
humilia-

ii 349

352

354

national plagues sevenfold
appalling horrors of the plague
Pleasure, mischiefs arising from unlawful in-
dulgences
i 47. 78
Politeness, as practised by bad men ii 19
Poor, (the) a fine series of arguments in beg-
ging for them
i 409
Pope, his kingdom compared with Christ's i 185
Popery, sketch of its corruptions, pref. i 5. 205
(see Papists)
Poverty, God who quickeneth and arranges all
things, often leaves his best servants
in indigence and want i 180
Prayer, a source of consolation
ii 152
Preachers, the liberty of the French exiles in
that respect
ii 84
Preachers, (the primitive) an admirable ad-
vantage in addressing the heathen
and the Jews
i 197
Predestination, the impossibility of explaining
it; but God, who cannot err,
declares that he offers violence
to no creature, and that our
destruction proceeds from our-
selves
ii 116
Princes and judges, their qualifications ii 344
Principle, purity of principle must be the ba-
sis of all our conduct
ii 4
Prophecy, objections against it answered; its

ii 149

206

Philosophical apathy, a great evil

ii 348

character asserted i 152, &c.
difficulties of affixing a literal
meaning to the prophecies of the
Messiah and his kingdom i 183
Prophecies respecting the fall of Jerusalem
Prophecies respecting Christ's death, accom-
plished by his sufferings 169
Prophets, how they conducted themselves at

38

courts

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Piety, its excellence

i 55
it is distinguished by knowledge, since-
rity, sacrifice and zeal ii 35, &c.

Piety is productive of health

of reputation

of fortune

of happiness

of peace

of confidence in death

i 399
Prophetic eloquence, its superiority i 379
Professional men, the conditions of their sal-
vation
ii.57
ib. Protestants of France distinguished by their
attendance on public worship,
and on the days of communion
i 16"

ib.

the piety of Ephraim and Judah tran-

sient

84

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xii

Proverbs of Solomon, some of them reconciled Reformation, the reformed obtain the free ex-
ib.

with his assertions in his Ecclesi-

astes

ii 69

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Providence has, after one hundred years, an-

ercise of religion

the massacre of Paris cruelly

plotted under a marriage with
Henry of Navarre

ib.

xi

Guise attempts to dethrone
Henry III. by a league
Henry IV. of Navarre, embraces

popery, and ascends the
throne

xii

ib.

the edict of Nantes
the Jesuits founded by Loyola,
no doubt with good intentions,
at first, confounded by Riche-
lieu with the Protestants xiii
Louis XIII. persecutes the Pro-
testants by Richelieu's advice
ib.
the final revocation of the edict
of Nantes

XV

the horrors and the exile of 800,
000 persons

this

persecution

xvi

uniformly

charged on the French clergy;
its impolicy exposed in forty
arguments

xvii

the glory of Louis XIV. waned
from that period

swered our author's question in Regeneration, character of it

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ib.

i 315
(see Holiness)

its nature laid down in a
change of ideas, a change of
desires, a change of taste, a
change of hopes, a change
of pursuits
its necessity

ments

ii 393

401

the necessity of regeneration
demonstrated by the genius
of religion, the wants of man,
and the perfections of God ib.
Religion, progressive in five classes of argu-
ii 13. 16
its evidences were stronger to the
scripture characters than to us
ii 181
some have too much and some
too little sorrow for sin i 97
possibility of a death bed repent-
ance proved by six arguments
103

Repentance,

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but the queen of Navarre be-
comes its most zealous advo-
cate
ib.
the duke de Guise commences
a war with the Protestants,
and 50,000 of them are slain x

114

on a death bed repentance 247
three objections answered
two prejudices against a protract-
268
ed repentance

246

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